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JHC397

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 October 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.45, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH agrees that he & Sir William Thiselton-Dyer should pay for [John Reader] Jackson's trip to Paris. JDH advises caution in dealing with [Daniel] Oliver, he believes that seclusion has led to Oliver developing 'erroneous views'. Gunther was proposed for a Royal Medal a year earlier than Oliver. The Exhibition [Exposition Universelle, third Paris World's Fair] will close at the end of November but exhibitors can sell off exhibits from the end of October.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11727F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Margaret Landell Sharpe; Margaret Landell Pennington
Date:
24 Oct 1878
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (25 January 2022, lot 132)
Summary:

Sends his autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11727

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
24 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 150–2)
Summary:

Wants some plants for sleep-movement observations. Has almost finished experimental work and must start sorting his notes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11728

From:
Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 265
Summary:

EAS eagerly awaits the publication of CD’s work on heliotropism.

Sends him a paper on "Polyembryonie" [Jenaische Z. Med. & Naturwiss. 12 (1878): 647–70].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11729

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
29 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 74
Summary:

Rejoices that he should have "staggered" William Thomson so quickly and that the latter should speak of GHD’s "discovery". The internal heat [of the earth] will please geologists and evolutionists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11730

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 130
Summary:

Plans to produce a translation of Weismann’s Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie [1875–6] and would welcome a preface from CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11731

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
30 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 189–90)
Summary:

Wants Impatiens seeds, in order to observe movements of cotyledons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11732

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
31 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Will do his best to provide preface for Weismann’s Studien [see Collected papers 2: 280–1].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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